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Emily Nagin received her MFA in fiction from the University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program in 2015. Her work has appeared in Uncommon Core Fiction Anthology, New Ohio Review, and the Main Street Rag, among other publications. In addition to blogging for MQR, she is a contributor at Fiction Writer's Review. She lives in Pittsburgh. Follow her on Twitter @EmilyNagin.

“When I teach, my analogy is that fiction is a huge tree while poetry is a bonsai. It’s immensely helpful to toggle between working on different scales. Fiction helps me infuse my poems with narrative. Poetry makes my fiction more deft, descriptive, and concise.”

Pittsburgh’s self-styled Premier Poet answers the door in a shimmering, jewel-blue blouse, hair teased into a softer version of a mullet. He’s wearing understated make-up and a mild perfume, something between vanilla and baby powder. On his fingers, rings set with blue jewels catch the early evening light.

The thing about identity is, people are always trying to define who you are for you, to tell you what you mean. And we should be interrogating our positions in society, our privilege relative to our oppression, but we should also be skeptical of those who insist we are definitively one thing or another.

Fall 2018

Fall 2018

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Michigan Quarterly Review, founded in 1962, is the University of Michigan’s flagship literary journal, publishing each season a collection of essays, interviews, memoirs, fiction, poetry, and book reviews.